09/21/2010

Communication 3

What was meant to happen?

The finished product on the external wall is stone, and for this particular area near the plant-room there was no blockwork formed to take the stone.

What did happen?

We ended up building a timber frame off the existing blockwork and we were told specifically to build back 65mm from the hinges to allow for 35mm thick stone and a clearance of 30mm for the opening of the door.

When we built the framing we had to take into account the 8mm James Hardie Villa Board which was going to be fixed onto the timber framing. The Villa Board gives the stone something to glue onto. The overall finished product should be flush with existing blockwork so when the stone is fitted it all sits in line when looking along the face of the wall.

We also needed to build a return on the other end of the plantroom as their was no blockwork their either.

We completed the job and the waterproofing guys did their bit, and all was well, except when the stone guys came to do their measurements, we found out the stone was not 35mm thick, it was more and they wanted us to adjust the framing to suit.

Why did it happen?

Lack of communication between our supervisor and the Hawkins Ground Floor supervisor and the Italian Stone Company, and no plans or detail to support any of the work we initially carried out.

What did we do to fix it?

We unscrewed the villa board, removed the framing from the existing blockwork which we had to use a hilti gun to fix with initially, cut down and refit the nogs that were on face side of the frame, cut the face side of the villa board to suit and fixed it back on again.